Three jailed for theft of £600k worth of BMW parts

Stolen parts included steering wheels, dashboards and in-car infotainment systems

Three jailed for theft of £600k worth of BMW parts
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A trio of “sophisticated” thieves have been sentenced at Northampton Crown Court after stealing high-tech BMW car parts worth more than £600,000.

Vitalijus Belovas, Vitalijus Bakutis and Ramunas Radzevicius committed a total of 49 offences in Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Kent.

Belovas was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to steal and admitted two counts of possessing false identity documents.

He was sentenced to four years and two months.

Bakutis was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to steal and admitted two counts of possessing false identity documents.

He was jailed for three years and six months.

Radzevicius admitted two counts of conspiracy and was sent to prison for three years and four months.

Northamptonshire Police were alerted to a suspicious vehicle linked to a series of thefts in April 2018.

A month later officers stopped the vehicle with Belovas, Bakutis and Radzevicius inside along with steering wheels, dashboards and iDrive in-car control systems from two BMWs.

Further investigations led police to a string of offences dating back to November 2017.

Det Insp James Larkin, from Northamptonshire Police said: “These were sophisticated thefts by a gang which used a mixture of technology and brute force to break into cars and steal high-value parts, leaving vehicles written off or requiring thousands of pounds’ worth of repairs.”

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